Standards for Browser Video Playback Metrics

Description

With the proliferation of video playback on mobile devices, video metrics have become more important than ever. Beyond simple engagement data, metrics around data transferred, bandwidth, dropped frames, and playback rate are more important than ever to creating great user experiences.

In spite of this, there is not currently any standardization around measuring the playback performance of HTML5 video in browsers. Flash supports a large collection of network and player measurements and provides excellent insight into the performance of video in the Flash player. In browser, Firefox and Chrome have implemented some custom metrics into their HTML5 video elements.